It’s been a while guys, now I’m back. I had a great time in Japan’s TGS 2011 as well as the Eurogamer Expo last week. I didn’t get a chance to blog but you can check the picture gallery I’ve uploaded to the social network. You might see it’s not that crowded because I was there during business day.

As for the interview with the questions you guys have asked previously. I’ll be started to post it every Thursday from now on. Each game interview will split into 2 parts (for each Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends, Ninja Gaiden 3 and Dynasty Warriors Next) so there will be 6 videos (one every Thursday) from now on.

As for the warming up, I’ve done a little interview with the Champion Jockey advert guy, Pierre as some people requested me to do that. He’s a cool dude!

As for the other interview videos, they’ll all be released at TKE Vodcast channel on YouTube. Oh yeah, I’ve managed to make all the producers smile like that!

Off topic: If you’re interested of some video footage I’ve taken in Japan, Tokyo Game Show and Eurogamer Expo 2011, you can check my inspchinTV‘s YouTube channel too. I update it weekly.

If you watched this interview video before, you probably already knew I’ve been sent to Japan last year during TGS (Tokyo Game Show) to have the interview with the producer from the questions I picked up from you. Yes, one good news is I’m going to TGS 2011 again and this time I have a slot booked to have an interview with the producer of DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends, Mr. Akihiro Suzuki. If this is the first time you heard about this name, he’s the father of Dynasty Warriors games, as well as TRINITY: Souls of Zill O’ll and BLADESTORM: The Hundred Years’ War.

So if you have any questions regarding to this title, DYNASTY WARRIORS 7: Xtreme Legends, you can drop a comment below with your questions BEFORE SEPTEMBER 5, 2011. I’ll be picking the smart questions from you and remember it has to be DW7XL related. Refrain from cursing because it’s not coming on Xbox 360, too. I personally would like you to come out with some technical questions regarding the game features that hasn’t been announced yet, also some questions that’s related to him and Dynasty Warriors franchise, like who is his favourite character and why, rather than just OMFG Y TIS ISN’T CUMMING OUT ON THREE SIXTY!? KOEI Y U NOT LOVE US FANS I’M BOYCOTTING U or something like that – of course I know everything about this, I’ve been receiving all of these from your tweets, wall posts and even the texts to my mobile phone! So yeah, be genuine my warriors!

Apart from that, look at that QR codes on the box! Yeah, if you want to track my journey to Japan for Tokyo Game Show 2011 and you’re free to scan that QR codes and get the live updates from there – I know my business right? If you don’t have smart phones, don’t worry, here’s the link to track it: http://bit.ly/chinjapan – Feel free to bookmark, re-blog and comment, and if you have any questions, you can always leave your comments here or tweet me @inspchin on Twitter.

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Trinity: Souls of Zill O’ll is coming out on February 11 in Europe and North America on February 8, exclusively on PlayStation 3. Here’s the look of the game copy to give you sort of idea and a retention in mind for your next shopping in game stores.

Buy it or not, watch this trailer and judge if it’s your cup of tea, but I want to let you know that if you really want this, please get it early before it’s running out (don’t think we shipped a lot). You can also download the demo from PlayStation Network (coming very soon, keep an eye on @tecmokoeieurope on Twitter). Personally, I do enjoy the game, the story and the its overall design, and I’ve been watching this trailer for more than 10 times already.

Want some more info? Check out the official site @ www.trinity-game.com to see those beautiful landscapes and the game information. “I don’t care, as long as I can… take you with me!” Areus, you’re my hero!!

I’ve been a fan of this video game show (Taiwan based) for almost 2 years now. I love the way they cosplay and talk about games each episode (it’s in Chinese though.) I have met the staff team few months ago in Japan and realized they really like about TECMO KOEI PS3-exclusive’s TRINITY: Souls of Zill O’ll (titled TRINITY: Zill O’ll Zero in Japan.) So they’ve been waiting for 11 years for Zill O’ll until this sequel came out, finally. They also emphasized about getting the original game (not pirated or download) in this episode if you want the series to keep going. TRINITY: Souls of Zill O’ll in coming to Europe 11.02.2011 (February 11 – love the number order there) and North America on February 8, the English trailer should be released sometime next week.

In this episode, they’re cosplaying as Areus and Selene with some TRINITY: Souls of Zill O’ll content (with some other game content as well.) From Part 4 (09:20) until the end of Part 5 are the actual content, but I attached the whole episode to show you how the show is like (well only if you could understand Chinese, haha!)

(*09:20 ~ the end)
(*the whole bit)

Check out the English site of TRINITY: Souls of Zill O’ll here @ www.trinity-game.com. Any question, feel free to drop the comment or just tweet me @inspchin on Twitter.

1. Rockman 8 – Metal Heroes (Mega Man 8)
This is probably one of the underrated Rockman games, but it’s the first Rockman game that I played and I’ve started becoming a Rockman fan through this game.
My favorite stage here is Searchman’s stage because the music is very catchy to me. Searchman has also since become my most favorite robot master in the series.

2. SD Gundam G Generation Spirits
SD Gundam G Generation is a series of Turn-Based Strategy games which features super-deformed Gundams. This is the game which introduced me to most of those plentiful Gundam series. Basically just think of this series as a Super Robot Wars but with only Gundams.
The pic I’m taking is a screenshot from the first stage of Mobile Suit Gundam’s scenario in SD Gundam G Generation Spirits. It’s one of the easiest places in the game where you can grind up your units.

3. Gundam Musou 3 (Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3)
The latest game in my most favorite series mash-up: Gundam + Warriors = Win for me. Well, basically that’s pretty much what I can say. :p
I like playing in this mountainous forest stage because most of the time an awesome BGM will be playing there: Fresh Nature.

1. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Peace Walker was released this year and I was really hyped for it. True enough it lived up to the hype I had. For a portable release it felt up to standard of the console MGS games. Graphically it was one of, if not the best looking game on the PSP this year. Content wise it could last a regular game for a month or so with the plenty of missions available in the game and all. The one thing I really like about this game in particular is that the game, like MGS4, gives you an option to either go all out action Rambo style and kill the crap out of everything or you can go classic MGS and sneak your way through the entire game sans giant bosses. Story was pretty nice and it fit the missing portion of the Metal Gear saga well. Was also good to see some great interaction between characters and the voicing was well done too for both English and Japanese versions. Another thing that was great was the crossovers, especially for Japan. Uniqlo, Monster Hunter, Pepsi, Doritos, Arakawa haha. Plenty of good outside content in the game for anyone to enjoy. All in all, Peace Walker was a masterpiece to play and truly one of my favorite games of all time. I know for sure though that this is my GOTY for 2010.

2. Final Fantasy Tactics/FFT: War of the Lions
Final Fantasy Tactics was my first Final Fantasy game I’ve played and to date it is still my favorite Final Fantasy game of all time. Unlike usual FFs, this one was a tactical RPG, so your characters are on a chessboard and each of them take turns to move and fight the enemy, hopefully winning! For a game released around some time near FF7 it didn’t really sell well but many loved the game for its deep plot at its time (1997ish). I particularly like the story for this too even if its quite sad near the end. One thing I like about the game is the cameos inside, like Balthier and Cloud for example which are pretty cool as they really blend into the game well. Another thing I like is how the difficulty of the enemy increases as you level up because it keeps the game challenging all the time.

3. Musou Orochi Z
Musou Orochi Z is a compilation of WO and WO2, which happens to be my favorite Musou series finally on the PS3! For someone who’s been dying for a PS3 Orochi game, its my sort of dream come true. Sure I’ve played the PS2 and PSP versions already but a PS3 version I just can’t skip because its my favorite system and my favorite Musou games! The new characters for the game are very nice and quite fitting too. One of my favorite things about the game is how they expanded on Orochi’s backstory through the Dramatic modes since he’s my favorite character after all. My favorite leveling up stage is Komaki-Nagakute stage from the Wu story in the WO2 section. That stage in particular had plenty of enemies to kill and it helps for level and proficiency grinding in the game. God knows how many days I spent just to proficiency grind on that stage that I ended up liking it a lot!

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Gosh, I’m really late, I still have few more articles that need to go up before 2011, hope I can finish them soon. In case it doesn’t happen, Happy New Year 2011 to everyone here first, thanks for the great support and an awesome year, and I hope you enjoyed my blog!

So I attended to this Google seminar, and I’ve learned a lot from Mr. Keith Ramsdale (VP of EA) while he gave his very ambitious speech. The whole session, I was just writing notes with all the key points and everything that he said because it’s quite true and amazing. He showed us the FIFA 2011 trailer, I’m not a football fan myself but it worked by making my pants wet with what they’ve been done and what they’re going to do with it.

Well basically he said: In the old days, it’s okay for us to stay in the room and play our video games alone by not connecting to any people. But nowadays, this doesn’t work, online play has become a very important feature for the game, not just the video game, but the social network itself like Facebook and Twitter, it has become the main root for people to explore the new things that are close to their genre to discuss about the things they like and share the cool things. I think this is totally right – with the invention of Facebook and Twitter, gamers get to find another gamers in their genre, and same thing applied to everyone who has the same interest, like reading, body building, or some random play.

In the old days, parents used to restrict their children or to keep their children away for playing video games. Nowadays, the parents play games with their kids and even a 50-year-old granny enjoyed her time playing games. Some fitness clubs have also used Wii Fit as part of their fitness program. With the technology changed THAT quick these days, everything has come and gone quicker, everything processes with a lot of information and data. “So if you don’t change, you get to lose behind.” ~EA.

Talking about the use of mobile – the future isn’t actually the home consoles anymore but mobile and the various connectivity (just look at the grown of the iPhones, it’s grown about 8 times quicker than people started to use mobile in the past – in less than 3 years which is totally shocking!) And as you might have been noticed, more people have connected using mobile phone these days. If your application doesn’t work on mobile, you lose a major part of the accessibility. (This actually made me think of “maybe I have to make my website accessible on mobile as well.”) – Well, I speak my words always louder than my action (so we’ll see) – I really want to try this out!

The world is all digital nowadays, there are so many channels while people get connected and talk and you can’t avoid it (you’ll never know the outcome because it varies all the time!) – Well if you’re lucky enough by showing what you’ve got in this digital world, you get to be famous like Justin Bieber in quick (for example), even this fucking annoying kid, Fred has his own movie with John Cena now, seriously WTF!? (I’m jealous…)

You know what? When you play the demo for more than 10 times, you get bored. So what I normally do after that is to walk around and check out the environment and see if the development team has been slacking or not. Yes, I did it in the same way for Warriors: Legends of Troy last weekend at Memorabilia. The version is the demo that has been shown during E3, Tokyo Game Show and London Expo 2010 (which means it’s still in development and NOT finalized yet) – and the conclusion is, they work really hard on the details, the smoke, the water effects and the textures. I love the efforts they put with each part of the environment in the game as well as the details on the character – I’m surprised because of the moving Achillies’ mouth when zooming in and checking for the details. For this one, I’m impressed or else I wouldn’t blog about it!